Muerte en Venezia.....Bellísimo MahalerHermosa películaUn regalo. Muchas gracias por esto

At this moment my 22 yr old daughter is driving to her new home, half-way across the country. I haven't listened to this for many years but it came to mind as just right for now:sad, lovely, bittersweet, expressing the pain and beauty of love. KoreanMale's image is me. And I agree it is the best interpretation.

it is true, everytime I listen to this piece, all the memories came back, I call it "mental obsession", no other classical piece can give me the same terrible obsession :(

Time stopped; so I sailed on the bittersweet waves to the Moon, with the winds of this Music...+++

Amazing and beautiful. You embrace pain and love, regret and happiness. all the highs and lows of passion. You feel as though your body and mind are being played, the feeling is so strong...oh! how I could go on and on...where am I, Shang ri la, Paradise, at birth or death...I know not, just that I feel!

luchino visconti

I feel so too.Of course many favorite tune I have,but if some say to select one,I select this.Without this tune ,I feel,I find no mean to live.

Intense and beautiful, and most sublime.Yet so much energy is called for: Osborne stated in is book interviewing Karajan that K states slow music with intermittent pauses greatly stresses the mind and body ( as in the example of Joseph Keilberth's death whilst conducting a performance of Tristan und Isolde in Munich, 21 JUL 68.There is so much more to this great music than we often know.Still it is beautiful and I thank you for this.

Actually, Mahler composed this piece as a dedication to his wife Alma, expressing with the music his love for her.

Karajan is pure genius! No other version comes remotely close to his expressively beautiful, rightly reasoned, and imaginatively played edition. This version makes me cry, for he directs the BPO magisterially as he indeed directed all of the orchestras he conducted. He "knew how the piece should go" and got it there! Such mastery is sorely missed in today's bland musical landscape. BRAVO!!! For those who cannot hear the difference in this version and the rest... there is the tragedy.

Wow! This version makes me cry. Karajan knew how the music should go! This is truly the finest playing of this piece to be found, but all of Karajan is the finest playing to be found. He is my all time favorite conductor. What genius! If one cannot hear the difference in this version and the others, sadly, there may not be "any hope" for those persons, when it comes to realizing beauty.

luchino visconti, it's luchino, not luigi^^

This movement just shreds me. The intensity is almost too much to handle.Von Karajan: Amazing.

hermosoooooo!!

Wonderful. Thanks : )

El gran Mahler y Karajan....sobran las palabras. Imposible mas bello sonido, aunque bastante triste.

karajan - luigi visconti - desperation - sweetness - death.what a great great interpretation full of intensity and beauty.

what a great atmosphere in karajans interpretation.remembering "death in venice" by luigi visconti, the music reflects all the pain and the sweetness getting old in view of youth and beauty till death.a tremendous interpretation,full of intensity and beautiful sound.

One more .. This music gives just TOO many things to pop out in mind that I just can hardly believe how complicated this piece is as far as my emotion is concerned..just amazing ... so sad and regretting but on the other hand - i'm in such a comfort zone that just GOES ON AND ON infinitely...OCEAN lighted by the moon that flows my body to nowhere that anyone has ever seen or visited BEFORE. BUT I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SEE AND FEEL until I'm awakened to live a reality...

OMG... when i first heard this music, I just lost MY MIND to it....AMAZING music, can't believe for the FACT that this music was composed by human being... Such a genius speechlessWhenever I hear this music, it reminds me of lonely woman looking at the endless horizon of the ocean for someone that she had missed or waited for whom was already gone in real lifeBTW I think Karajan version IS THE BEST THE THE BEST...TWO critical CLIMAX JUST sunk my emotion to the abyss of no where.